The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Book Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is "an extraordinary achievement" (The New Yorker)--a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.

Physician, researcher,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439170916
• ISBN13: 9781439170915
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Well done!

Anyone interested in new medicine and certainly anyone dealing with the disease themselves or with a loved one should read this book.